Load of bobbins - Health & Safety gone mad. How much will this later caper cost hmm? And who do you think will be picking up the tab huh?
What next? Knives not allowed in restuarants due to risk of stabbing?!

Maybe the problem isn't the glasses. Maybe, and I have no empirical evidence to support this, it's just that some of the people that go out drinking are total scum?

Maybe, as a society we need to start to change our entire attitude to alcohol and start to make getting completely pissed in public less acceptable.

For example, I personally would be delighted to see a minimum price per unit of alcohol. If I have to pay a bit more for my supermarket beer it would be a small price indeed if it stopped underage drinkers getting rat-arsed out on the street.

I'd also make it an offence to be drunk in public places where there might be children present - at the beach, at a carnival, in a shopping centre etc.

I'd also like people to realise that getting drunk in itself isn't very big or clever. Unfortunately I think though that it is a symptom of the empty lives that many people lead that they think that the simple act of getting drunk is something worth pursuing.

I'd also ban those hats that have a can on each side and 2 long bendy straws.

Of the pubs I've been in using them it was usually for shot and wine glasses, only time I've been served a plastic beer glass is because of a festival or event on where they wanted a faster turn around.

Surely its not beyond the realms of current technology to make a shatterproof glass

There was a time when beer in the UK was only ever sold in pubs in glass mugs/tankards/whatever. These were pretty much indestructible iirc. Still make a nasty weapon if smashed across someone's face though.

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RepacK - the article suggests that this is a crime prevention issue - there's no mention of 'accidents'. Still never mind, perhaps you'd like to throw in "this is political correctness gone mad" as well ?

RepacK - So the H&S Executive is purely a tool of the nanny state (though not in the case of pint glasses as it has nothing to do with them) rather than an organisation that through the powers granted to it stops employers exposing their employees to risks that prior to 1974 were very much present in occupations not covered by industry specific acts (Factories Act, Mines Act etc) and largely not dealt with purely due to cost?

IMO this is just another symptom of the Nanny State trying to control whats good & whats bad..Ok lets call it PC gone mad as well! I dont care what sort of label you want to put on this subject - its just a daft idea. I like my ale in a pint GLASS not some flippin tupperware! And Im a grown-up who can hold his ale, never had a pub fight & never smashed a glass over someones head! Why should the gov be telling me what to drink out of???

GRRRRRR!!!!!

ps sooty whatever..Your encyclopdeical knowledge of the HS act is wonderfull but you'll have to buy me a drink before Ill talk to you!

the scheme is looking to find an accepable replacement, no preferred design is being pushed and the likelihood is that in 5 years we will have reduced glassing stats and not know what all the bother was about

I listened to the designer get interviewed, don't see an issue other than why has it took so long to get to a good idea ike this

It's not a new idea Portsmouth Student Union were using plastic 'glasses' ten years ago (potentially longer), and night clubs have used plastics for ages. It made complete sense as these places are full of drunks who often drop their drinks. The place would have been covered in blood given the types of shoes the girls wore and the amount of glass that would have been strewn across the floor.

I can't say that I would disagree with that statement. It's still got bugger-all to do with H&S/nanny state/political correctness though. Unless of course, you think that is also the reason why we aren't allowed to carry guns ?

True, at the moment the places that I go that use plastic glasses are mainly student bars etc... and in most of them you're aiming to drink so much that the taste difference plastic would make is pretty undetectable!

As long as these plastic horrors are restricted to night clubs and city centre chav bars I have no problem I should think ambulance and A+E staff would be glad of the reduction in cases of glassing

At German beer festivals you can get 1 litre MaBkrug glass tankards that weigh a ton at british beer festivals we increasingly get a poxy plastic glass that holds 1/3 of a pint any fancy a STW visit to the Octoberfest

Polyprop and other 'plastic' bottles are sold at concerts , much less weidth for launching them at stage or into crowd. There are product life issues however, Coke for example always tastes diferernt out of glass than PE/Pu/alu.
Glasses are toughened now and have to be approved for use and kite marked already ( really should be, not always are ) The BLRA is aware of the problem , but its a tiny minority of idiots who cause big problems.
Trials are being done for much heavy build plastic re-usables, but its expensive not to make a glass a weapon of sorts as its made from glass.
AAMOI we paid iro 60p each for laser etched legal pint glasses, and there must be millions in use in pubs up and down the country.Not an insignificant replacement cost.